Christian Reder

Christian Reder (born April 7, 1944 in Budapest ) is an Austrian political scientist , university professor and author .

Life

Christian Reder studied political science at the University of Vienna . From 1970 to 1980 he worked in Zurich in organizational and political consulting, primarily for public administration, health care and the media sector. From 1980 to 1994 he headed the “Austrian Aid Committee for Afghanistan”, worked to set up the Falter publishing house for the weekly newspaper Falter and provided advice to various non-governmental organizations and cultural institutions.

In 1985 he was appointed professor at the University of Applied Arts Vienna , where he set up the Center for Art and Knowledge Transfer . Its projects focused on intercultural spatial research and area studies in the Middle East, North Africa and the Black Sea - deliberately on the fringes of the European Union - for which publications were published collectively with students and teachers: Transfer Project Damascus , Transfer Project Sahara , Gray Danube, Black Sea . In addition to project work as such, interdisciplinary topics such as cartographic thinking were dealt with. Retired 2012.

Christian Reder is chairman of the non-profit private foundation RD Foundation Vienna, founded in 2011 . Research. Development, Human Rights . He is represented as an author and essayist in numerous publications as well as editor of the book series Edition Transfer at Springer Vienna-New York and co-editor of the literary magazine Volltext and co-editor of the science newspaper Recherche .

Fonts

• Organizational development in public administration. Responsibility, results, structures. Paul Haupt, Bern / Stuttgart 1977, ISBN 3-258-02692-0 .
• Vienna Museum Talks. About dealing with art and museums. Falter Verlag, Vienna 1988, ISBN 978-3-85439-039-8 .
• Words and numbers. The alphabet as a code. Springer, Vienna 2000, ISBN 978-3-211-83406-0 .
• Transfer project Damascus. Birkhäuser, Basel 2003, ISBN 978-3-99043-000-2 .
• Afghanistan, fragmentary. Springer, Vienna 2004, ISBN 978-3-211-20428-3 .
• Sahara. Text and picture essays. Springer, Vienna 2004, ISBN 978-3-211-21078-9 .
• Inquiring mindsets. Essays on artistic work. Springer, Vienna 2004, ISBN 978-3-211-20523-5 .
• Daniel Defoe. An essay on projects. Springer, Vienna 2006, ISBN 978-3-211-29564-9 .
• Reading book projects. Birkhäuser, Basel 2006, ISBN 978-3-99043-061-3 .
• Gray Danube, Black Sea. Springer, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-211-75482-5 .
• Cartographic thinking. Springer, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-7091-0994-6 .
• Deformed bourgeoisie. Mandelbaum, Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-85476-495-3 .
• Years of unrest ... Ali M. Zahma and Afghanistan. Mandelbaum, Vienna 2018, ISBN 978-3-85476-577-6 .
• Mediterranean urbanity. Periods of vital diversity as the foundations of Europe. Mandelbaum, Vienna 2020, ISBN 978-3-85476-878-4 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Christian Reder in the catalog of the German National Library
• Christian Reder's website